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Lepista antipoda G. Stev. 1964

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Lepista antipoda G. Stev., Kew Bull. 19 6 (1964)
Lepista antipoda G. Stev. 1964

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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G. Stev.
G. Stev.
1964
6
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Lepista antipoda G. Stev. 1964
NZ holotype
species
Lepista antipoda

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antipoda

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Lepista antipoda G. Stev. 1964

[GS] Pileus 6-13 cm. diam., pinkish buff to ochraceous buff, young specimens sometimes pale grey, waxy, hygrophanous, convex at first becoming undulate with a more or less depressed centre, margin remaining strongly downrolled; flesh white to buff, with a water-soaked layer above the gills. Gills sinuate to decurrent, buff, thin, rather crowded, with many short gills. Stipe 4-7 X 1-2 -5 cm., buff, with or without slight mauve tinge, solid or somewhat hollow, finely fibrillose. Spores 4.5-5 X 3um, non-amyloid, shallow nodulose, thin-walled (Fig. 1/12, p. 10). Strong sour smell. [Bandoni] spores 5-6 x 3.5-4 um, ellipsoid in profile and face view, round in polar view, verruculose, verrucae cyanophilic, inamyloid; basidia lacking cyanophilic bodies, 4-sterigmate; clamp connections present. This is not a species of Rhodocybe, but should be placed in Clitocybe section Verruculosae. [EH] Basidiospores 4.5–6 × 3–4 um, ovoid, weakly rugulose, thin-walled, inamyloid. Basidia 24–30 × 4–6 um, cylindrical to slender clavate, 4-spored, clampless. Cheilocystidia (Pseudocystidia) 35–45 × 3–5 um, scattered, cylindrical, towards occasionally with irregular, lobed projections, thin-walled, hyaline, refractive content absent. Caulocystidia in shape and size like cheilocystidia, often fasciculate. Pileipellis a cutis composed of short-celled, cylindrical, irregularly interwoven hyphae, 2–4(–5) um diam., terminal cells not distinctive, non-gelatinized walls thin, in KOH encrusted with yellow-brown pigment. Oleiferous hyphae absent. Clamp connections absent. [JAC] Clamps connections not observed on any tissue. Spore ornamentation is not cyanophilous but it does consist of verrucae rather than surface rugulation. length=4.5–5.6µm (µ=5.1, σ=0.24), width=3.2–3.9µm (µ=3.5, σ=0.19), Q=1.3–1.7µm (µ=1.48, σ=0.08), n=32. No cystidia observed. The stipe of the dried material is not attenuating towards the base. The growth in rough grass and wai-iti domain suggests this is an introduction. It has the spores of a Lepista but the failure to find clamps is problematic.

Lepista antipoda G. Stev. 1964

No type collection was found in Kew. Another collection under the same name (STEV. 1097) proved to be a species of Rhodocybe Maire.
New Zealand: North Island, Wairoa Gorge, 26.IV. 1956, leg. Read in Stevenson-Cone (K, holotype). Wai-iti Domain. 19.V. 1956, leg. Stewart (K). South Island, Nelson, Murchison, Matakitaki, 27.1.1969, leg. Horak (ZT 69/29).
Among grass and under Nothofagus fusca (Hook. f.) Oerst. and N. menziesii (Hook. f.) Oerst. in forests. New Zealand.
Stevenson (1964: loc. cit.).

Lepista antipoda G. Stev. 1964

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Kew images.

Lepista antipoda G. Stev. 1964

Pileus 6-13 cm diam., pinkish buff to ochraceous buff, young specimens sometimes pale grey, waxy, hygrophanous, convex at first becoming undulate with a more or less depressed centre, margin remaining strongly downrolled; flesh white to buff, with a water-soaked layer above the gills. Gills sinuate to decurrent, buff, thin, rather crowded, with many short gills. Stipe 4-7 x 1-2.5 cm, buff, with or without slight mauve tinge, solid or somewhat hollow, finely fibrillose. Spores 4.5-5 x 3 µm non-amyloid, shallow nodulose, thin-walled (Fig. 12). Strong sour smell.
In rough grass, Wairoa Gorge, 26.4.1956, D. Read in Stevenson (type); Wa1-1ti Domain, 19.5.1956, M. Stewart.
Pileus 6-13 cm diam., puniceo-ochraceus usque in spec minibus junioribus interdum pallide griseus, cereus, hygrophanus, primum convexus, deinde undulatus, medio ± depresso, margine semper valde deorsum revoluto; came alba usque bubalina, strato hygrophano supra lamellas sito. Lamellae sinuatae usque decurrentes, bubalinae, tenues, confertiores, lamellis brevibus multis. Stipes 4-7 x 1-2.5 cm, bubalinus, interdum leviter malvaceo-tinctus, solidus vel subcavus, tenuiter fibrillosus. Sporae 4.5-5 x 3 µm haud amyloideae, leviter nodulosae, parietibus tenuibus. Odor fortis, acidulus.
Typus: D. Read in Stevenson 1030.

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Lepista antipoda G. Stev. 1964
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Lepista antipoda G. Stev. 1964
Lepista antipoda G. Stev. (1964)
Lepista antipoda G. Stev. 1964
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Lepista antipoda G. Stev. 1964
Lepista antipoda G. Stev. (1964)
Lepista antipoda G. Stev. 1964
Lepista antipoda G. Stev. (1964)

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Lepista antipoda G. Stev. 1964
New Zealand
Auckland
Lepista antipoda G. Stev. 1964
New Zealand
Dunedin
Lepista antipoda G. Stev. 1964
New Zealand
Nelson

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taxonomic status
I agree with Bandoni that spores of the type are consistent with Lepista not Clitopilus/Rhodocybe. L. antipoda, L. panaeolus (=L. luscina) and L. muritai are part of a complex/variable taxon with little sequence variation [JAC] [JAC]

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1 January 2000
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